The fact that your current 12-year-old HP has lasted this long isn't much of an accomplishment... computers from 12 years ago were a lot slow, ran a lot cooler, and didn't die as often. Hell, the same stays true if you go back even longer. I could fire up a 30 year old computer today and I bet it would work fine. Yet there are PC's 2 years old that won't work.

But I digress.

I *ESPECIALLY* would not recommend one of those all-in-one PCs', iMac fucking clones, whatever.

I always have used desktops for sale. I had one sitting around for the past 2 months that I just couldn't move... But it sold just the other day.

I'll see what I can dig up for you. You need Tower/Monitor/Keyboard, everything?

The fact that your current 12-year-old HP has lasted this long isn't much of an accomplishment... computers from 12 years ago were a lot slow, ran a lot cooler, and didn't die as often. Hell, the same stays true if you go back even longer. I could fire up a 30 year old computer today and I bet it would work fine. Yet there are PC's 2 years old that won't work.

But I digress.

I *ESPECIALLY* would not recommend one of those all-in-one PCs', iMac fucking clones, whatever.

I always have used desktops for sale. I had one sitting around for the past 2 months that I just couldn't move... But it sold just the other day.

I'll see what I can dig up for you. You need Tower/Monitor/Keyboard, everything?

Tower and monitor for sure. I don't mind buying a brand new house and keyboard that hasn't been juiced up by a previous owner lol.

Your description make me think the IDE (age would make it IDE not SATA) drive is succumbing to a very slow and painful death. Don't even think you can buy new IDE drives anywhere locally at this point to even bother turning it into a web browser machine for a kid or anything like that.